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  Features6 months ago

  The Rhythm & Blues Legacy: The Secret History Of Rock And Pop

  Fifty songs that were part of rhythm and blues heritage but which didn’t fully find a mainstream audience until they were remade.

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  Features7 months ago

  Reason To Believe: The Introspective Brilliance Of Tim Hardin

  Endlessly underrated, Hardin wrote some of the most beautiful and enduring songs of his day, including the much-covered 'If I Were A Carpenter' and 'Reason To Believe.'

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  Features7 months ago

  ‘From Hello Dolly To Goodbye Charlie’: Bobby Darin’s Old And New Gems

  'From Hello Dolly To Goodbye Charlie' took its snappy title from the versions of those songs that bookended the great singer's 1964 album.

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  Features9 months ago

  Billy May: The Great Arranger

  Billy May arranged for some of the best in the business, artists like Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, and Anita O'Day.

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  Features10 months ago

  ‘Baby Face’: A Hit For Little Richard, Bobby Darin And Many Other Faces

  The song written by Harry Akst and Benny Davis also connects Elvis Presley, Paul McCartney and countless others.

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  Features10 months ago

  ‘Mack The Knife’: Bobby Darin Takes Kurt Weill Into The Pop Charts

  His reading of 'Mack The Knife' topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic and became another Darin classic.

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  Features10 months ago

  ‘If I Were A Carpenter’: Bobby Darin Introduces A Tim Hardin Gem

  ‘If I Were A Carpenter’ is also closely associated with the Four Tops, Johnny Cash & June Carter and many others.

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  Features11 months ago

  ‘MacArthur Park’: How The Four Tops Got That Recipe Again

  The Motown quartet's skill in customizing pop material was especially clear when they covered Jimmy Webb.

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  Features12 months ago

  Future Classics And Forgotten Novelties: Billboard Introduces The Hot 100

  Listen to some of the well-known and more obscure entries on Billboard's first-ever Hot 100, for the week of August 4, 1958.

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  Features12 months ago

  ‘Poor Little Fool’: Ricky Nelson Rules The First-Ever Hot 100

  The song written by Sharon Sheeley made history on the August 4, 1958 chart.

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  Features2 years ago

  When Satchmo Covered ‘Mack the Knife’

  Before Ella Fitzgerald covered 'Mack The Knife', Louis Armstrong had the original hit in 1955 and proved to be Louis’s biggest hit for years.

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  News2 years ago

  1950s UK Rock ‘N’ Roller Marty Wilde Scores First Top Ten Album At 80

  'Dreamboats and Petticoats Presents The Very Best of Marty Wilde' entered the official UK album chart at No. 7.

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  Features2 years ago

  ‘You’re The Reason I’m Living’: Another Masterful Turn From Bobby Darin

  The ever versatile Bobby Darin turned his hand to country music on 1963’s ‘You’re The Reason I’m Living’, and put his own unique spin on the style.

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  Features5 years ago

  The Day We Lost Bobby Darin

  The life of Bobby Darin was cruelly cut short when he died after open heart surgery on 20 December, 1973. He was only 37.